LOBA Winner Newcomer 2021: Emile Ducke
Kolyma - Along the Road of Bones: Thousands of gulag inmates from the Stalin era died while helping to build a high-speed road through the remote Kolyma regi...
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Ralph Gibson - Leica Hall of Fame Award 2021 winner
Ralph Gibson, this year's winner of the Leica Hall of Fame Award, tells the story of his outstanding career as a photographer. In more than six decades, he h...
LOBA shortlist candidates 2021
The shortlist candidates of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2021 and their submitted photo series.A detailed overview and more information on each series can b...
The Best Panoramic Photos of 2021: Epson International Pano Awards
The best panoramic photos of the year.
The Epson International Pano Awards is the largest competition for panoramic photography and has announced its 2021 winners, with a misty cypress tree panorama awarded the top prize.
The Foto Awards presented by Las Fotos Project: Smita Sharma in Conversation with Anna Grevenitis - LENSCRATCH
This week we are celebrating a wonderful organization in Los Angeles: the Las Fotos Project and The Foto Awards event taking place on October 23, 2021. Today we celebrate the Advocacy Award Winner (adult), Smita Sharma. The Advocacy Award is given for po
Smita Sharma is an award winning photojournalist and visual storyteller based in Delhi, reporting on critical human rights, gender and social issues in her own community as well as in the Global South on assignments for Human Rights Watch, National Geographic Magazine, and other publications.
Announcing the Series Winners of the Emerging Photography Awards 2021 - Feature Shoot
We’re delighted to announce the twelve winners of the 7th Annual Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards, with the selected artists spanning genres as well as continents. Christian K. Lee, Maggie…
The Recipients of the 42nd W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant
The Award is being shared among Five Photographers covering stories from around the world. Each winner will receive $10,0000 to be used to continue their individual projects on a range of subjects.
Announcing the Winning Artists of the Creator Labs Photo Fund
Meet the twenty winning artists recognized by Aperture and Google’s Creator Labs for their exceptional photographic visions.
This summer, Aperture and Google’s Creator Labs teamed up to launch a new initiative, the Creator Labs Photo Fund, aimed at providing financial support to photographers in the wake of COVID-19. Selected by Aperture’s editors, the twenty winning artists are recognized for their exceptional vision as well as the strength and originality of their portfolios, and will be awarded a prize of $5,000 each to sustain their work and practice.
Much ado about nothing: 2021’s best minimalist photography – in pictures
A stranded tree trunk, an empty pool, the moon shining through bent railings … these images find a wealth of feeling in the smallest of things
Anonymous Photographer Wins Prestigious Photojournalism Award
He chose to remain anonymous as a protective measure.
This year, the top award for the News category was awarded to a photographer in Myanmar who wanted to remain anonymous for security reasons. Mikko Takkunen, the Asia photo editor for The New York Times, collected the award on his behalf.
Perspective | Here are the winners of this year’s Women Photograph Project grants
This year’s winners were chosen from 1,300 entries and include projects about identity and environmental issues.
Lenscratch Student Prize Second Place Winner: Dylan Hausthor - LENSCRATCH
It is with pleasure that the jurors announce the 2021 Lenscratch Student Prize Second Place Winner, Dylan Hausthor. Dylan was selected for their lyrical and haunting project, What the Rain Brought, and has graduated from Yale this Spring (2021) with an MF
The 2021 Lenscratch Student Prize: 26 to Watch - LENSCRATCH
Every year we seek to celebrate the next generation of photographic artists through our Student Prize Awards program. 2021 was a stellar year for photography, not only with a record number of excellent submissions, but the work itself reflected deep think
Cast Out of Heaven - Home’21 International Photography Prize Winner | LensCulture
Home’21 International Photography Prize Winner
In addition to the huge population moving from Tehran, people from all over Iran are migrating to these new towns. These new developments are notorious for social pathologies, like high rates of suicide among pupils and drug abuse. The residents talk about how a town’s population has doubled over the past six months, reaching 200,000. Yet, the town can hardly provide educational, social and health care services for 10,000. Here is the land of those cast out of their heaven — the metropolitan Tehran. And they all share is the bitterness of the fall. – Hashem Shakeri
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For a collection of photographs from multiple U.S. cities that cohesively captures the country's response to the death of George Floyd.
The Boston Press Photographers Association's 'Historic' Photos of 2020
The images look back on a challenging year as captured by press photographers.
On May 24 2021, the BBPA, which is the oldest press and television photographers association in the United States, debuted its first outdoor exhibition in the organization’s 95-year history, produced in collaboration with Photoville, a New York-based non-profit organization that works to promote a wider understanding and increased access to the art of photography for all.
An elderly couple in Spain kissed through plastic film because of COVID-19. An AP photographer just won a Pulitzer for photographing the moment. - Poynter
Associated Press photographer Emilio Morenatti won the 2021 prize in Feature Photography for his yearlong work in Spain photographing the elderly.
Emilio Morenatti began photographing the elderly in Spain during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when it was decimating communities throughout Europe, and provided a glimpse into what was happening to the most vulnerable populations internationally for the remainder of the year.
Film Photo Award Finalists and Standouts - LENSCRATCH
Once again, the applicants and proposals submitted to the Spring 2021 Film Photo Award were nothing short of awe-inspiring. Every single proposal was thoughtful, nuanced, deeply felt and delivered, making the jurying exceedingly difficult. This notable
Winners of the 2021 World Press Photo Contest
Some of the winning entries in this year’s annual photo competition
The winning entries of the annual World Press Photo Contest have just been announced. This year, according to organizers, 74,470 images were submitted for judging, made by 4,315 photographers from 130 different countries. Winners in eight categories were announced, including Contemporary Issues, Environment, General News, Long-Term Projects, Nature, Portraits, Sports, and Spot News. World Press Photo has once more been kind enough to allow me to share some of this year’s winning photos here with you.
World Press Photo: the Shocking Images of 2020
The results of the 64th edition of World Press Photo were announced on April 15. Six nominees were in the running for the prestigious and coveted world photo of the year. The World Press Photo of the Year was awarded to Mads Nissen for his photograph of a